The adaptation of visual search strategy to expected information gain

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1075-1084

  Tseng, Yuan Chi ^a   Howes, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive models; Decision making; Density; Eye movement; Image search results; Spacing; Strategy; Thumbnails; Visual exploration; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COGNITIVE MODELS; DECISION MAKING; DENSITY; EYE MOVEMENT; IMAGE SEARCH RESULTS; SPACING; STRATEGY; THUMBNAILS; VISUAL EXPLORATION; VISUAL SEARCH;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 57649225959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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